The deadliest tornado in recorded U.S. history occurred 100 years ago. The Tri-State Tornado touched down in southeastern ...

When Sasaki was 9 years old, his hometown of Rikuzentakata was one of the areas on the northeastern coast of Japan that were devastated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. It ...

In Japan, Fudai is famously the town that survived. When the tsunami of March 2011 struck ... A marker on the top floor notes the height of the wave. The most sobering reminders are around ...

This is the third installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and Okinawa ... facilities near residential areas on the west coast of Okinawa ...

Japan on Tuesday marked 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami ... At Usuiso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Reiko Endo, 59, remembered a friend she lost to the tsunami as she faced ...

Fourteen years ago, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Eastern coast of Japan, resulting in a massive tsunami that devastated coastal towns, taking over 22,000 lives and displacing many more.

The 9.0 magnitude quake was so powerful that it shifted the Earth off its axis and triggered a 15-metre tsunami, which swept over Japan’s main island of Honshu, killing more than 18,000 people and ...

The longer and stronger the wind blows, the more energy is transferred into those waves. As well as an increase in wave height, sustained high wind speeds generate waves with a longer period - that is ...

Fifteen hours later, the tsunami, which by then had travelled 10,000 kilometres, struck Hawaii, then Japan and the Philippines ... As the tsunami loses its speed nearing the coast, the first wave ...